64 total teamsQuote:
Relegation means a team has dropped from their current conference to an inferior conference. A team is relegated when they finish the season at the bottom of their conference. The relegated team starts the following season in a lower conference.
4 Power Conferences capped at 14 schools
- 7 schools per division
- 6 divisional games + rotating 3 cross-divisional games
- 3 non-conference games (only 1 may be from non-Power 4 Conference
8 "Independent" Schools
- Must play all 7 Independent Schools
- Remaining 5 games must be against Power Conference Schools
- No more than 2 schools from any one Power Conference
Relegation/Promotion (every 3 years)
Every third year, there is a Relegation aka Purge of the two lowest schools in every Power Conference. The two schools with the lowest winning percentage over the past 3 seasons are Relegated.
- The 2nd worst team in each Power Conference is Relegated to "Independent"
- The worst team in each Power Conference is Relegated directly to a non-Power Conference
- The top 4 "Independent" schools with the highest winning percentage are placed in separate Power Conferences
- The four lowest "Independent" schools are placed in non-Power Conferences
- The top 4 non-Power Conference schools with the highest winning percentage earn automatic Power Conferences bids
- The next best 4 non-Power Conference schools earn an "Independent" bid
The Winning Formula for Relegation (think GPA calculations)
- Power Conference wins count as 3 (includes bowl games) - Any win vs a team > .500 gets additional .5 bonus at end of season calculation - Any win over a conference or National Champion gets 1.0 bonus at end of season calculation
- Independent wins count as 2
- Non-Power Conference wins count as 1
- Conference Championships count as 4
- National Championship win counts as 5 (there will be a Power Champion and a non-Power Champion)
- All loses count as 0, except for National and Conference Championships that count as 2.5
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